Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then followed an excellent broadsword exhibition between Professor Castaldi and a sailor from the Navy Yard...
...much as four hundred years ago it was a favorite game for sailors of the British navy to "lay houlde of an goode rope's twiste" and pull against an opposing party on the broad ship's deck, of a quiet afternoon. The number of contestants was practically unlimited, and the contest was not decided till one or the other of the opposing parties had been pulled entirely over a chalk-line on the deck. Of course, after a few heaves, if one side began heaving all together, as sailor's heave a rope, the other side was bound...
...class dress of the seniors of Wabash College is a sailor suit. They will appear as a class this way at commencement...
...storm-beat sailor prays for ease...
...Normandy and Brittany could be made with no railway expense at all. Even if some of the poorer students feel that they cannot afford $250, let them bear in mind that $250 enables a great deal of solid comfort, and that a second-cabin passage, - which to a good sailor is comfortable enough, - with extra care of the pennies on shore, may bring the cost of the whole trip down to less than $200. Then there are the increased facilities for getting good clothes cheap, and by this saving in the cost of clothing for two or three years...